"weapon" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In his Star Wars speech, the President asked for the means to render nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete, a promise, he said, for "changing the course of human history."
- Then in that tube of vacuum was waged a spectacular duel of ultra-weapons - weapons impotent in air, but deadly in empty space.
- Such a system would be a far cry from Mr. Reagan's vision of making nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
- The Strategic Defence Initative Organisation, which over the past decade has spent some $10 billion in answer to Ronald Reagan's call for a defence that would make nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete, is no more.
- Star Wars' and a Breakthrough On March 23, 1983, Mr. Reagan announced plans for a system of exotic, space-based defenses that would make nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
- He added that President Reagan's "vision of a leakproof shield that makes nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete is not a practical reality.
- With that weapon impotent they cannot possibly win a long war waged so far from their bases.
- In the cold, dim light of a dark Sollen day those two lumpy bundles of stones seemed pitifully small, an impotent weapon to raise against such a fierce and relentless foe.
- The purpose was to discuss a nationally televised speech President Ronald Reagan had given the night before, in which he had challenged American scientists to create "the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
- The four aunts sat wide-eyed and pale, rosaries lying like impotent weapons in their laps, not yet understanding their reprieve from the Martian invasion.
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